Police at the scene declined to say what they had found inside the apartment. They referred all comments to the Syracuse Police Department's public information officer, who could not be reached for comment Monday night.

Shortly after arriving, officers hung yellow "Do Not Cross" tape along Avery Avenue, from Morgan to Kincaid avenues in Syracuse. Part of Morgan Avenue also was surrounded in police tape.

Officers knocked on doors and asked neighbors questions. Some neighbors had security cameras on the front of their homes, which police were interested in, they said.

While police canvassed the neighborhood, and went in and out of an Avery Avenue apartment, several people gathered around nearby. Several people stood in the parking lot of Twin Trees Restaurant around midnight.

One woman cried as she said her "husband was gone." She and others gathered on the sidewalk said they were not with him at the time, and they did not know exactly what happened.